By Henry ObettaThe National Credit Guarantee Company (NCGC) has launched GuaranteeHer, a women-focused credit guarantee initiative aimed at unlocking more than ₦100 billion in financing for women-owned and women-led Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across Nigeria over the next five years. The programme, unveiled during a high-level hybrid stakeholder engagement in Abuja on July […]

For many years, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has struggled with an identity problem. The military, police and Department of State Services dominated conversations around national security.

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – AS way of contributing to Nigeria’s democratic development and ensuring adherence to expected precepts, the University of Benin would on Wednesday this week hold its first ever federalism lecture. The lecture, organised by the recently established Centre for Federalism and Democratic Studies, University of Benin would be on the […]

Digital publication platform, EscapeMag, has likened Africa’s creative industry to the oil sector, which has long been the backbone of the economies of several countries on the continent. Oil generates between 30 per cent and 80 per cent of public budgets in key producing nations such as Nigeria, Angola and Libya. In Nigeria, for instance, […]

· Narrates how he built a backup service during the January 2025 TikTok shutdown Content creation has become one of Nigeria’s loudest industries, but very little is said about the business that sits behind the videos. How does a creator actually get a brand deal? How do they know what is working? And what happens […]